The first Wicked press tour was thrillifying.

We will never again experience anything on the scale of the “holding space for the lyrics of ‘Defying Gravity,’” video for the first time again, nor can we regain the first-time feeling of hearing Ariana Grande talk about how confusifying the incident was.

There were many good moments from this year’s press tour for Wicked: For Good, the second installment of the franchise (and final installment—I don’t care what Michelle Yeoh said on the red carpet…don’t ruin a good thing with too many sequels. LEARN from Jurassic Park). Even if, for the most part, the cast was, as the kids say, “reheating their nachos” from their first time over the rainbow, there was plenty to cherish about the delightful, sometimes scandalacious press tour.

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